The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
I feel like as more people wake up to how social media is toxic and quite literally programming by the rich, they will seek out alternatives that are owned by the people.
This is how the Internet was intended to be.
what you mean all around the GLOBE there are only 47k active users? How does it compare to Reddit? I am an ex redditor. Banned for a comment in unpopular opinion sub lol
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
What happened 2023?
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
The first time people actually joined lemmy, before then was probably like 1 instance with near-dead activity.
The other answers are correct, I just wanted to add that they’re talking about Reddit
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Lemmy has so much more and more diversified content than at the time of the API exodus. Hopefully, it will help us much more lemmygrant this time around.
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
Did you say especially the Taylor Swift armpit one? You perv.
Yeah, what’s it called so I don’t accidentally stumble on it?
Which community is that so I can block it?
Hah, beat you to the joke by 4 minutes, nerd!
Honestly, that’s like a millisecond in Lemmy terms, so well done.
I finally made the move to setting up an account here and wean my reddit usage.
It’s getting so bad on there, so many bots, trolls, and paid agitators. Plus the uptick in fascist apologists. Smaller communities with higher bars to entry produce better conversation, in my experience.
This place is so much better for actually discussing things.
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
I have been temporarily banned from a new account I made a while ago to return after my permabanned last summer. I am seriously thinking of fully ditching reddit save for a few special nerdy interests (and porn).
We have porn! But yeah we need more population growth for niche and local communities to really flourish.
That’s why I’m here.
Yes I’m here so expect this place to be filled with awful soon.
I can’t go back to Reddit. Bots, bots as far as the eyes can see.
Lfg!!!
Definitely above the threshold of immortality.
Yeah, I can tell; I’ve had a sharp uptick in people picking arguments and then sticking their fingers in their ears.
No you haven’t!
It’s no wonder when every other comment on Reddit is an obvious bot. Either the bots here are less obvious or they’re not here yet.
What do you mean user adjective - noun numbers is a bot?
Beep Boop, Am Not A Bot… 🤖
Fun times.
